Crucifixion - 02 by Dirk Patton Read Free Book Online Page A

she charged, side
stepping and slicing deep enough into her neck with the Kukri to sever her
spinal cord.  Kicking the body aside I spun and buried the knife into the chest
of the next, slicing into her heart and dropping her on the spot.  I kept
fighting, slicing, stabbing, kicking and even punching.  They were fast and
strong, but they were still just enraged humans.  None of them were large
enough to present an individual threat, but if I went down they’d all be on me
in a flash and that would be the end of it.
    Lost in the fight I had lost track of time and hadn’t
thought to look for the harness when suddenly the whole roof and half a dozen
females in front of me started disintegrating.  I back pedaled and looked up to
see Mayo manning the minigun again and Gwen leaning out of the open side door
of the helicopter waving at me like a maniac.  The line extended down from the
winch and the harness lay on the roof ten feet away.  Diving for it as Mayo
adjusted fire I slipped it over my head and slashed open the throat of an
attacking female as the winch took up the slack and started pulling me up.  I
was only a few feet up in the air when another female sprang onto the roof, saw
me dangling there and leapt forward with a great bound, launching herself off
the body of the female I had just killed. 
    Trying to make her miss I pulled my legs up and twisted
away, but she slammed into my lower body and wrapped her arms around me with an
iron grip.  Immediately she started attacking, biting my upper thighs through
the heavy fabric of the uniform pants.  Fortunately humans don’t have sharp
teeth and serious bite pressure like a dog, so she couldn’t actually bite
through my clothing, but she was able to get a mouthful of flesh in her jaws
and son of a bitch if it didn’t hurt.  Bare skin would have torn open, but the
heavy fabric protected me to a degree.  Grunting in pain I pounded on the top
of her head with the hilt of the Kukri, but she was like a Pit Bull and wasn’t
letting go other than to bite down on a new chunk of flesh on my inner thigh. 
Damn that hurt, and it was way too close to a really sensitive area. 
    We were now winched all the way up to the helicopter and
hung suspended in the air just in front of the open side door.  Mayo had
stopped firing and sat there three feet away staring at me with his mouth
hanging open.  The bitch bit down again, even higher this time and I roared in
pain and pounded even harder on her head.  It still did no good, her grip not
loosening in the least.  Now pain has a way of distracting you, and the pain
from the bites had distracted me from what I was holding in my hands.  Instead
of pounding on her head I should be stabbing or slicing.  Reversing the knife
in my grip I stabbed into the side of her neck, ramming it in to the hilt and
started sawing away from my body, feeling the blade bite into her spine.  Her
grip instantly loosened and she fell away from my body, Ka-Bar still stuck in
her neck.
    Mayo snapped back into action and reached out for my now
empty hand.  I grabbed his wrist and he let out slack on the winch as he pulled
me into the helicopter where I collapsed on the vibrating deck.  He pulled the
harness off over my head, snapped a safety tether to my vest and left me alone
as I rolled into a ball with my hands tucked protectively between my legs
pressing on the spots that hurt the worst. 

Chapter 7
     
    The deck of the helicopter was hard with an anti-skid
coating sprayed on it.  I noted this as my face rested on the rough, textured
surface and I pressed hard on the tender areas where the infected female had
clamped down on me.  She had managed to get her teeth on the very upper portion
of my inner thighs and only good luck had kept her from getting a mouth full of
balls, or worse.  The pain was intense, but not as intense as it could have
been.  We were in flight and since I wasn’t a pilot and not needed at the
moment I was happy to